IMAGE CITATION
Date: 1930, May
Subject:
Orignal Work:
Place: Shubenacadie, NS
Ownership/Collection: Collection of Elsie Charles Basque
Source: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax
Reference Number: P113/ 2000.**.03/ N-23,972
Image Use: Free for personal research and non-commercial educational use.
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IMAGE INFORMATION
The photographer, Elsie Charles, later Mrs. Isaac Basque, was a student at the Residential School in the early 1930s. Front row, from left: Mary McDonald, Margaret Hammond, Lucy Brooks, Julia Glode, Esther Phillips; back row, from left: Madeline Mitchell, Catherine Mitchell, Mary Francis. Dr. Basque writes, "We, older girls, were required to make our uniforms, brown woolen skirt and pillow ticking blouses. The only day we were allowed to dress up was on May procession Sunday." [Elsie Charles Basque to R.H. Whitehead, 6 November 1997.]
KEYWORDS
girls; students; schools; Indian Residential School; Nova Scotia, Shubenacadie; McDonald, Mary ; Hammond, Margaret; Brooks, Lucy; Glode, Julia; Phillips, Esther; Mitchell, Madeline; Mitchell, Catherine; Francis, Mary